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Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident has been awarded the $60,000 prize in a competition for “audacious, courageous and ...
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who recently won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for It Was Just An Accident, met ...
The much-loved and celebrated Iranian storyteller, who just last month won the top prize, Palme d'Or, at the Cannes Film ...
Internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been banned from making films in his home country for two decades. This week, his latest film makes its Australian premiere as part of ...
Having grown up on Iranian cinema, Tiger’s Pond director Natesh Hegde elated that filmmaker Jafar Panahi sought him out to ...
This world-renowned Iranian director was barred from making films in his own country. Now, he has come to Sydney under a veil of secrecy to promote his latest work, which is based on his ...
A simple examination of Panahi’s oeuvre, however, shows his lens belongs only to himself. The 64-year-old is a master ...
Freed from restrictions, Jafar Panahi returns with the nail-biting 'It Was Just an Accident,' inspired by his own experience in Iran's prisons.
Panahi received the 2025 Palme d'Or, the highest honour at the Cannes Film Festival. He’s also the focus of the 2025 Sydney ...
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi reflects on his winning of the prestigious Palme d’Or at the 78th Cannes Film Festival (13-24 ...
Iranian director Jafar Panahi said seeing his secretly made film with an audience after 15 years was the most exciting ...
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi won the prestigious Palme d’Or at the 78th Cannes Film Festival (13-24 May 2025) for his ...